Mar 28 2007
…and winned! But all I won was a stupid cup of coffee.
So now I’m sitting here with this empty cup that’s worth a full cup. But that means I have to walk through the mall with it, through the Metro station, down to the other mall, and over to the Tim Horton’s kiosk. Then I [...]
Mar 23 2007
Not many comments this week, and my reader stats are down, plus this is Friday, so I suppose this is a good time for me to confess to a crime. My crime: I fed my sweetie a pre-packaged “ready to cook” meal last night.
OK, so it’s not the biggest crime ever. But loyal readers know [...]
Mar 22 2007
(Note: see the updates at the bottom of this post…)
Lettuce eaters in Quebec are familiar with the Mirabel brand of hydroponic butter lettuce that is available year-round. It comes in two varieties; the “Premium” lettuce is packaged in a semi-rigid plastic dome, and the less expensive “Classic” version is stuffed into a soft plastic bag.
The [...]
Mar 19 2007
A couple of weeks ago, Chef Nick posted some culinary reviews and photos from his recent trip to New York. One thing in particular stuck with me – a description of the arugula pizza from Luzzo’s on 1st Avenue in Manhattan, which he followed up with a photo.
Saturday was pizza day at chez nous, so [...]
Mar 16 2007
OK, everybody’s getting themselves one of those WeeWorld avatars, so I got one too. But I’m not a “joiner,” so I didn’t actually sign up for the WeeWorld stuff (whatever it is).
That’s a Guinness in my right hand and a camera in my left (and a hot dog stand in the background). Oh, what a [...]
Mar 15 2007
Something in my shoulder bag was beeping as I came into work this morning. It wasn’t a steady beep, just a faint, single beeeeeeep every three or four minutes.
It was driving me crazy. I looked at every gadget in my bag and couldn’t see anything going on with any of them:
Digital camera
Digital video camera
Palm Zire [...]
Mar 13 2007
Every time I see Martine sitting at her iMac I say “that’s it, I’m switching!” Her iMac is a beautiful thing, and it is full of beautiful applications that seem like a pleasure to use. I love how everything seems to be so wonderfully interconnected and how setting things up and running them are so [...]
